

New alliances are forming as the old ones are dying, and all are preparing for a new global conflict. Its influence stretches across Europe, Africa, and Asia, forming a seemingly impenetrable economic network that hides great ills beneath the surface. Germany, still the preeminent power of the world, is facing challenges all around itself. The United States has become a hotbed of radical politics after years of neverending Great Depression, and there are whispers of armed paramilitaries making preparations for great uprisings that may collapse America into a Second American Civil War.

The Whites emerged victorious from the Russian Civil War after a successful Ice March and Lenin's assassination, but iron-willed revanchism has since overtaken their new regime.

Revolutionary Syndicalism has overthrown the defeated Entente Powers, exiling the bitter royalists and creating a red alliance that seeks both revolutionary and revanchist expansion. It is now 1936, and much has changed since the war's end. Germany became the dominant power of Europe, a position that it would carry into the world in the decade after. The Central Powers are declared the victors of the war in the Treaty of Versailles of 1918, triumphing over the Entente Powers. With renewed strength, the Central Powers launches several great offensives in Spring 1919, collapsing both France and Italy into revolutions. Later that year, the British naval blockade is partially lifted after a British submarine mistakenly torpedoes an American freighter heading to Germany, allowing the Central Powers to regain their energy. the real world history during The First Weltkrieg in 1917, when the German Empire does not renew unrestricted submarine warfare, preventing the United States from joining the Entente. The Kaiserreich timeline departs from that of the OTL note "original timeline", i.e. Currently in 1.4 beta for Hearts of Iron II, 1.9 beta for Darkest Hour and 0.14 Beta for Hearts of Iron IV, Kaiserreich takes many of the same nations in a different direction, while introducing dozens of new countries, ministers and leaders.

Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is a Hearts of Iron II, Darkest Hour and Hearts of Iron IV Game Mod that is set in an alternate timeline where the Central Powers win World War I.
